Comment by ai_critic

We have systematically dismantled by popular consensus the safety of liberalism and belief in a marketplace of ideas.

There is no advantage to being "more public" when it's all to common to get hit by marauding bands of idealists and trolls of all atripes. Nobody rewards you for having nuanced opinions on things like immigration publicly, nor trans rights, nor even something as banal as programming language choice.

We've now lived through a full pendulum cycle where public writing that was insufficiently woke was punished via internet lynch mobs and state pressure, and now we are seeing the exact same thing with insufficiently reactionary ideas invoking...internet lynch mobs and state pressure.

So, no, I don't think I will be more public, and I'll be unsurprised--if sad--when other rational actors do similarly.

There's no reason to be public, because people have made it clear that they'd rather support a system that attacks that than protects it.